Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes

What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I've worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out of me.

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• My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'

  

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• I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.

  

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• 'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.

  

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• As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.

  

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• When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.

  

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• I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.

  

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• The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

  

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• When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.

  

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• I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.

  

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• People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.

  

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• It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.

  

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• The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

  

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• I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

  

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• I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.

  

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• Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

  

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• I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

  

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• I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.

  

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• I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

  

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• What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I've worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out of me.

  

  Erykah Badu
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